Marcuso coffee table designed by Marco Zanuso, winner of five Compasso d'Oro awards between 1956 and 1985. His designs can be admired in many world-famous museums, such as the MoMA in New York, the Triennale Museum in Milan, and the Arflex Museum.
Produced by Zanotta in the 1960s, the 'Marcuso' coffee table has two shelves and legs in 18/8 stainless steel combined with an anthracite coloured glass top.
The Marcuso table was created in 1969 as the result of an ideal mix of research and innovation. In fact, for the first time, an advanced technique from the automobile industry was used in the production of a table... that of fixing crystal glass and stainless steel.
The idea came to Aurelio Zanotta while observing the deflectors on cars: simple pawls glued to the crystal. He decided to apply the system to his production, entrusting the task to the most technological architect-designer of those years: Marco Zanuso. He found the solution to fix the steel legs to the glass top: he simply glued four stainless steel discs directly onto it (using an unprecedented technique for those years, in which the glue was polymerised with ultraviolet rays), threaded on the inside, and then screwed the legs on. A procedure that simplified both production and packaging. The Marcuso represents one of the best examples of industrial design, one in which research and passion shared by the manufacturer, designer and technical department come together. So much so that in 2005 the famous design critic Pilar Viladas wrote in the New York Times Style Magazine that the Marcuso, in addition to being her favourite piece among those designed by Zanuso, had struck her for that innovative fastening system between top and legs: "It was this detail that made me pause for thought the first time I saw the table at an exhibition. And then I grasped the relationship between technology and aesthetics in modern industrial design... It is something that has to do with a special 'verve' of the modern and is basically one of Italy's greatest contributions to the world of design.
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